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Market Intelligence - 3.6.20Macroeconomics
The pandemic continues to dominate all our lives, directly or indirectly, and in a very negative way. If people are lucky enough to not have caught it, or know anyone who...

Market Intelligence - 19.05.20Macroeconomics
There have been no big changes in the past two weeks, and almost all news is still corona-related. Certainly there are plenty of other interesting topics, but publishers and ...

Market Intelligence - 5.5.20Macroeconomics
The world continues to be in the tight grip of the coronavirus. Although the spread is slowing in most regions and several countries are beginning to ease the lockdowns,...

Market Intelligence—21.04.20Macroeconomics
The pandemic continues to have the entire world and its grip. The focus is almost solely on the daily developments and the numbers and statistics supplied. In many countries, ...

German Perspective - 07.04.20What happened this week: One can question whether in times like this market reports make any sense. Generally, it is fair to say, no.
First of all, we are missing the market. Describing...

US Perspective - 07.04.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Most packers entered last week with offer lists that appeared to have a full complement of offers. This was in spite of last...

Market Intelligence - 07.04.20Macroeconomics
The world continues to drift into further unknown territory. It is a bit like the era of the discoverers; Christopher Columbus was also sailing west with a vision and hope,...

US Perspective—31.03.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week, most of the packers lowered their ideas anywhere form a dollar or two, to as much as $5 lower. Many members of the trade ...

Market Intelligence—24.03.20Macroeconomics
The coronavirus continues to dominate all our lives. In most countries around the world political decisions are influencing private and commercial life. Anyone who follows...

German Perspective - 10.03.20What happened this week: Another Corona week has ended and nothing has turned to the better. The Chinese claim to have the spread of the virus under control now, while in other parts of the ...

US Perspective - 10.03.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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According to the big packer trade, packers entered the week still possessing a number of unsold hides. This was in spite of...

Market Intelligence - 10.03.20Macroeconomics
It seems the world has just one problem; everything else has been covered up by news around Corvid-19. No environmental activists, no war in Syria, no weapons tests in North...

Market Intelligence - 25.02.20Macroeconomics
The coronavirus is the overwhelming issue at this time. It is now spreading also quickly outside China. The biggest problem is that it is unclear if anything can be done to...

Market Intelligence—11.02.20Macroeconomics
The news from the world of economics and politics can be broken down to just two major and one minor event in the past two weeks.
In politics the impeachment process against...

MARKET INTELLIGENCE—28.01.20Macroeconomics
The world of finance and economics has had quite a bit to offer in the past two weeks. The period started with the phase one deal between the United States and China, which...

Leather Pipeline - 14.01.20We ended our publication last year with the general of review of the situation in one of the most difficult years for the pipeline we have ever seen. It’s take this issue now to try...

Leather Pipeline - 10.12.19Macroeconomics
Politics continue to make the headlines and there are plenty of subjects feeding the news every day. In the US Mr Trump is facing impeachment. Protests and elections...

Leather Pipeline - 26.11.19Macroeconomics
In these final weeks of the year 2019 not much new has happened, but the tensions already in place have intensified, with people hitting the streets and displaying their...

Leather Pipeline: 12.11.19Macroeconomics
Politics continues to make the headlines. Finally, the UK did not leave the European Union on October 31 despite the promises of Boris Johnson. In the US, checks continue on ...

Leather Pipeline: 30.10.19Macroeconomics
We continue to see tensions between governments and citizens; demonstrations have taken place in Hong Kong, Chile, Ecuador, Spain and Lebanon over recent weeks. In many...

Market Intelligence - 15.10.19Macroeconomics
There are political tensions and problems wherever you look.
At the beginning of this month the Chinese celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese...

Leather Pipeline - 01.10.19Macroeconomics
We are now into the last quarter of the year and nobody can complain that there is a lack of activity and excitement in global politics.
In the past two weeks there was...

Leather Pipeline - 17.9.19Macroeconomics
We are rapidly approaching the end of the third quarter, which means there are only a few weeks before we close the curtain on 2019. Everything indicates rocky seas and the...

Leather Pipeline - 03.09.19Macroeconomics
We have to assume that all readers will be following the news more closely than ever because everything has become exciting in the world of politics. One has to be impressed ...

The Leather Pipeline - 20.8.19Macroeconomics
The clashes in Hong Kong have made headlines and are having an effect on the global economy. Hong Kong is much more than just a former colony of the UK and although it has...

The Leather Pipeline - 06.08.19Macroeconomics
Although we are at the beginning of the summer holiday season in the northern hemisphere of the globe, which is normally the time for the financial markets and politics to...

The Leather Pipeline - 23.07.19Macroeconomics
The past two weeks were again a reflection of the various challenges the global economy has to deal with. It is hard to set a priority list of things to discuss.
Perhaps we ...

The Leather Pipeline - 09.07.19Macroeconomics
The world of economics and politics in the past two weeks concentrated on the G20 meeting in Japan. Media and interested people were hoping for results from the various...

The Leather Pipeline - 25.06.19Macroeconomics
The world is not short of news and action in politics and economics. It is quite difficult to prioritise what has happened in the past two weeks. The good news is that the...

The Leather Pipeline - 11.06.19Macroeconomics
There has been no shortage of news and activity in the financial markets and in international politics over the past two weeks.
Despite many interesting subjects, everything ...

The Leather Pipeline - 28.5.19Macroeconomics
The world of finance and politics continue to supply exciting news – although it’s debatable if this is good news; we would say it’s pretty frightening....

The Leather Pipeline - 14.05.19Macroeconomics
One cannot complain about a lack of excitement and news from politics and the financial markets in the past two weeks. In normal times, we might have talked here about...

The Leather Pipeline - 30.04.19Macroeconomics
Unfortunately the last two weeks have been dominated by the terror attack in Sri Lanka. Little is really known, just that the usual suspects have claimed responsibility or...

The Leather Pipeline - 16.04.19Macroeconomics
It was not easy to pick some interesting headlines from the past two weeks. This is not because nothing is happening, but because it is difficult to select which events...

The Leather Pipeline - 02.04.19Macroeconomics
The past two weeks have been reasonably quiet in the world of finance and politics. The only exception is possibly the continuing drama in the over Brexit. The best...

The Leather Pipeline - 19.03.19Macroeconomics
After a long period during which there was a lot of financial and political news each week, we have entered a certain type of a break in the past two weeks.
First of all,...

The Leather Pipeline - 05.03.19Macroeconomics
In the past two weeks the main headlines in politics focused on the situation in Venezuela, conflict between India and Pakistan, the summit between the leaders of the US and ...

The Leather Pipeline - 19.02.19Macroeconomics
In the past two years geopolitics has become so eventful that it is quite difficult to pick what is the most interesting in the period we cover.
Until some years ago the...

The Leather Pipeline - 05.02.19Macroeconomics
The world continues to run into increasingly unstable conditions. It is a slow but continuous process. We cannot say exactly when and where it all started but we have...

The Leather Pipeline - 22.01.19Macroeconomics
Brexit, the government shutdown in the US, the trade war and so on continue to dominate the headlines. It’s interesting how relaxed the financial and commodity markets ...

The Leather Pipeline - 08.01.19Macroeconomics
The first edition of 2019 must start with the best wishes to all our readers for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Since our last edition just before Christmas, not ...

The Leather Pipeline - 11.12.18Macroeconomics
The past two weeks have confirmed how uncertain global investors are regarding the future of the economy. Investors are using any excuse to step in and out the market, which ...

The Leather Pipeline - 27.11.18Macroeconomics
The end of the year is approaching fast. There is just one month to go until we draw a line under 2018. Until the end of the third quarter, it appeared the endless upward...

The Leather Pipeline - 13.11.18Macroeconomics
There was no shortage of activity in the financial markets or in politics. The mid-term elections in the US were possibly the event which captured most of the attention in...

The Leather Pipeline - 30.10.18Macroeconomics
There is no shortage of news and activity in politics and the financial markets.
In Turkey, an opposition journalist was reportedly murdered in the Saudi Arabian embassy,...

The Leather Pipeline - 16.10.18Macroeconomics
Commodity prices have begun to fluctuate and in the past week stock markets began to change direction too. Various international institutions began to send warnings and this ...

The Leather Pipeline - 02.10.18Macroeconomics
After a long summer when politics mostly dominated the headlines, we are now seeing the financial markets become more active, which is in most cases directly related to...

The Leather Pipeline - 18.09.18Macroeconomics
In the past two weeks many people have been thinking of the last big financial crisis, which celebrated its tenth anniversary this September.
Many publications covered the...

The Leather Pipeline - 04.09.18Macroeconomics
Over the past weeks most of the global financial community was dealing with two major subjects. One is the almost daily broadcast reality show called ‘Donald and his...

The Leather Pipeline - 21.08.18Macroeconomics
We passed the peak holiday season in the Northern Hemisphere over the past two weeks. It appears those in Asia have learned to enjoy a summer break as well.
The parliaments ...

The Leather Pipeline - 07.08.18Macroeconomics
It is clear that politics and economics have not taken a holiday. President Trump continues to entertain the world. To call it entertainment might be a bit cynical, but what ...

The Leather Pipeline - 24.07.18Macroeconomics
In the northern hemisphere the holiday season has begun. This is also reflected in the financial markets, but for entertainment we have, fortunately, a US president who...

The Leather Pipeline - 10.07.18Macroeconomics
Although the past two weeks saw a fair amount of interesting regional news, such as the elections in Mexico and Turkey, the government crisis in Germany or the Brexit...

The Leather Pipeline - 26.06.18Macroeconomics
The past two weeks were busy as far as politics and the financial markets were concerned.
Mr Trump’s decision to separate children from their parents caused intense...

The Leather Pipeline - 12.06.18Macroeconomics
The G7 Summit, the expectations around the meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, new governments in Spain and Italy, elections in...

The Leather Pipeline - 29.05.18Macroeconomics
The past two weeks were once again not very exciting in terms of politics and the economy. Politics made more headlines than the financial markets.
We considers the main...

The Leather Pipeline - 15.05.18Macroeconomics
The past two weeks saw little activity as far as politics or the financial markets were concerned. However, there were some important decisions which could have a deep...

The Leather Pipeline - 01.05.18Macroeconomics
In the past two weeks, politics were no longer the main driver of the public attention. It is not that anything has really changed, but it seems the main actors had to take...

The Leather Pipeline - 17.04.18Macroeconomics
International conflicts might have been taken too easily by the general public but they are slowly becoming more important. The war of words is slowly becoming a war of arms ...

The Leather Pipeline - 03.04.18Macroeconomics
Who cares about data from the financial markets anymore? The stock and currency markets have found a new guru: politics. Economists can quit their jobs because interest rate ...

The Leather Pipeline - 20.03.18Macroeconomics
At the moment all is politics and there is an endless stream of news almost every day. But no matter what happens it leaves almost no trace on the markets. Politics is...

The Leather Pipeline - 6.3.18Macroeconomics
The situation in politics and the financial markets has calmed down a little, although the general subjects remain the same. The markets slowly draw their attentions to the...

The Leather Pipeline - 20.2.18Macroeconomics
There are periods when the financial markets and the political arena are boring. This makes it difficult to collect any kind of interesting information which is exciting or...

The Leather Pipeline - 6.2.18Macroeconomics
Politics and financial markets delivered more activity and interesting news last week than in the other weeks of 2018 so far.
For the leather pipeline, the biggest and...

The Leather Pipeline - 23.1.18Macroeconomics
The year 2018 has started with not very much big news. However, there is still quite a bit that the markets and businesses are talking about.
The main subject, which also...

The Leather Pipeline - 9.1.18Macroeconomics
After the break for Christmas we would like to wish all our readers a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! Let’s hope that you all will continue to follow our...

The Leather Pipeline - 12.12.17Macroeconomics
The global economy has had a good ride in 2017 and most pundits are convinced that the year is ending better than it began. As far as economic data and statistics are...

The Leather Pipeline - 28.11.17Macroeconomics
We are increasingly impressed by how little the financial markets are being affected by general politics. The global economy is expanding, interest rates are low and the end ...

The Leather Pipeline - 14.11.17Macroeconomics
The focus of the political spotlight shifted from the European separatism to US President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia. Some influential international publications say...

Leather Pipeline - 31.10.17Macroeconomics
The month of October is traditionally when a lot of political action takes place and this has again been the case in 2017. The past two weeks were dominated by politics....

Leather Pipeline - 17.10.17Macroeconomics
Europe has keeping a close eye on developments in Spain and Catalunya. Despite the region’s vote for independence, its status remains unclear. The financial markets...

The Leather Pipeline - 03.10.17Macroeconomics
The third quarter of the year 2017 ended last week and this means that the financial markets are beginning already to think about the end of the year and investors are...

The Leather Pipeline - 19.09.17Macroeconomics
News from economics and finance was pretty slow over the past few weeks. Those who are interested in inflation received the latest data from various countries, which showed...

The Leather Pipeline - 5.9.17Macroeconomics
Over the past two weeks, politics has been high on the agenda, and Hurricane Harvey dominated headlines. Vast parts of Texas were flooded and the storm claimed at least 60...

The Leather Pipeline - 22.8.17Macroeconomics
At the end of last week, terrorist attacks in Spain destroyed the relaxed holiday mode and dominated headlines. Visitors from many countries were among the casualties, and...

The Leather Pipeline - 08.08.17Macroeconomics
With the start of the month of August the peak holiday season in the northern hemisphere and in the Western world has finally arrived. Even though investors, brokers and...

The Leather Pipeline - 25.07.17Macroeconomics
A few issues have come to light on the financial markets that might have an influence on the leather pipeline as well as the general economy.
The first was the European...

The Leather Pipeline - 11.7.17Macroeconomics
The two big topics this fortnight were the launch of an intercontinental missile by North Korea and the G20 summit in Germany. History has taught us that big egos can become ...

The Leather Pipeline - 27.06.17Macroeconomics
There was only minor activity in the world of economics and politics in the past two weeks. Unfortunately, we continue to be faced with terrorist attacks all over the world; ...

German and US Perspectives

German Perspective - 3.6.20What happened this week: With a few exceptions, the easing process continues in most parts of the world. Ramadan has passed and the holiday destinations are getting ready to welcome...

US Perspective - 3.6.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week got off to a sluggish start, delayed by the National Holiday at the start of the week. As a result, packers did not...

German Perspective - 26.05.20What happened this week? For Germany it was a short spring week with a holiday on Thursday and only the necessary minimum of people worked on Friday. For many companies, this was a welcomed ...

US Perspective - 26.05.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Not much has changed, as the number of bids last week did not reflect much of an improvement compared to the previous week....

German Perspective - 19.05.20What happened this week? Another week has passed and in normal times everybody would be enjoying the numerous holidays we have in the month of May. There are still holidays, but this year...

US Perspective - 19.05.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week was a mixed bag as it pertained to offers from the big packers. According to reports, a couple of the packers published...

German Perspective - 12.05.20What happened this week: After many weeks of headlines detailing the latest numbers of covid-19 cases, infections and fatalities, with numbers presented like a live ticker-feed from the...

US Perspective - 12.05.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week was another in which packers only had a paltry list of hides to offer, with the majority of selections representing the...

German Perspective - 5.5.20What happened this week? Like everybody else we would love to return to normality. The question remains if the how the new normality will compare with the old one. Some people still believe ...

US Perspective - 5.5.20Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week began with only a limited number of offers from packers, a combination of better than expected sales the first few weeks...

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